Gun regulation constitutional

The Second Amendment reads: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

Let’s look at the two most important words. “Regulated”: To control or direct according to rule or law. “Infringed”: To wrongly limit or restrict.

The text of the Second Amendment itself calls for rules or laws to control its application. Therefore by definition, such rules and laws cannot be considered as having “wrongly limited or restricted” the right to bear arms.

Just as there are rules and laws governing ownership and use of nearly every other type of property, rules and laws governing the ownership and use of firearms of any type should and must be made and enforced.

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I believe in the right to own firearms, but that right must also carry heavy responsibilities. Purchasers and owners of guns should go through required training and thorough background checks before being allowed to own a gun of any sort acquired by gun shop, gun show, private transfer, Internet or any other means.

Is this an immense task? Certainly, but are not our very lives and the lives of our loved ones worth it?

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I give University of Kentucky men’s basketball Coach John Calipari a lot of credit. Each year, he starts with a new batch of freshmen who haven’t experienced life enough to go past a mirror without looking in it. However, I think it is time for rules to be enacted that will protect the “one-and-dones” from themselves. Most of these teenagers are not ready for the NBA. And they need more than one year of college ball to mature. Instead of relying on them to make a smart decision like P.J. Washington did, we adults should have rules that assist them in going down the right path.

Certainly, you can provide names such as Lebron James who could make the transition at an early age without any problem. But, I will bet even he would agree that most of these teens aren’t ready for the NBA. Just don’t ask them. They still believe that their talent and athleticism will take them anywhere like it did in high school. But a good, productive life typically is found through sharing and teamwork, whether you are talking about basketball or marriage or jobs or whatever. Let’s make “one and done” simply “done.”